Improved staeching-appakatus



glatten `tatrs garrot @Hita W. B. CCATES, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNCR T0 DAVID LYMAN,KOF MIDDLEFIELD, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Parent No. 77,356, daad April 2s, 1868.

IMPROVED STARGHING-APPARA'IUS.

TO ALL WHCM ITMAY CONCERN:

Be-it known that I, W. B. COATES, of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and improved Machine or Apparatus for Starching Clothes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

My apparatus encloses the starch in a portable case or vessel having a soft bottom, whichfserves as a strainer.` On rubbing the device over the surface of the shirt-bosom or other clothing to be treated, starch is applied in the desired quantity with great uniformity. l A

I will first proceed to describe what I consider the best means of carrying out my invention, and will afterwards designate the points which I believe to be new therein. i

The accompanyng drawings form a part of this specification.

Figure l lis a side elevation.

Figure 2 is a plan view.

Figure 3 is a central .vertical section.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts'in allthe igures.

A is the main body or casing, made by preference of any hard Vor fine-grained wood which will not stain the starch, such as maple orbeech wood. v l

B is a cork, fitting in the orifice a, and b is a cap, of brass or other suitable material, which fits over andforms a convenient handle or holding-piece, and stiiens and supports the connection ofthe cork to. the ense.

Cis a semispherical'bag, of cotton-decker otherwoven or knitted or felted fabric. It is firmly secured by its edges to the edges ot the easing A, by means of twine, cord, copper wire, or other suitable material,

.wound around in the groove a', as represented.

D is a piece of tape, fastened by copper tacks or otherwise 'around the edge, forming a nice finish, and being provided with a loop, d, by which the device maybe conveniently hung upon a. nail or other objectwhen not in us'e.

The operation of my invention Iwill be readily understood. The plug being pulled out, a quantity of semi-fluid starch is introduced in the aperture A, and the bag C is' partially or entirely lled. The plug B is new inserted in its place, and the device, after having been manipulated for a. short time to insure a uniform permeability of' the bag, is ready to rbe applied successively to each of the shirts or other articles, and passed.

` more or less rapidly and pressed down more or less forcibly-on the surface. The goods, after having been thus starched, may be manipulated inthe ordinarymanner, to better distribute the starch, orv'maybe dried without any such handling, as maybe preferred. The stareher'may rest on any convenient surface in the brief interval between Athe several operations in treating a seriesof shirts or other articles, but should be emptied, washed, and hung up by the loop cl at the close of eachdays work.'

The stopper can, if preferred, be made without cap and screw, but rounding at top, and with aiiange to vrest on A.

I call this a `marching-device, but it may be used for other purposes. I propose to use it sometimes for introducing indigo to the clothes, or to the water in which clothes are to be rinsed.

' Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

as followsz' I I claim the starching-device herein described, consisting of a-rigld vessel, A, closing-means B, and a strainer, C, constructed and adapted to operate substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein specified.

W. B. COATES. Witnesses: r l

CHARLES REANEY,

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